Bethess

"I am so, so sorry," I whispered. There was a strange emotion at the back of my throat and my eyes burned until water fell helplessly from them. I felt an equal burning in my heart, and ripping sobs shook through me like I was the world tearing apart. I looked down. I could not watch the steady-burning emotion I saw in his gaze. It was too warm, too frighteningly real. But he wrapped strong arms around me, and I sighed a very long, deep, pulling breath, feeling myself settle into the contours of his body as if I was a very young child, as if I would melt into his bones. The wind shook my tears away. His head nested perfectly into my shou